The Next Apple Watch Ultra Could Be the Life Saving Upgrade

One of the most outstanding features Apple has released in the last few years is being able to connect iPhones to satellites so that they can help in providing emergency services. This included people a few weeks back in the havoc made due by Hurricane Helene. Now it looks like Apple is bringing this facility onto its smartwatches.

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Bloomberg reports that the Apple Watch Ultra model next to release in 2023 will latch onto satellite networks. “The technology will let smartwatch users send off-the-grid text messages via Globalstar Inc.’s fleet of satellites when they don’t have a cellular or Wi-Fi connection,” states the report.

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In its early days, two years ago, the system only provided access to emergency services. After that, Apple added it to roadside assistance services as well. Now with iOS 18, users can text while being connected to a satellite network.

Notably, the smartwatch will have satellite connectivity in standalone mode. This means that the user will not have to carry an iPhone with him while going on a hiking trip or getting cut off from his smartphone. So, next, the Apple Watch Ultra could be crowned the first mainstream smartwatch to offer satellite link-up support.

Also, it’s trying to shift from Intel modems to MediaTek models in coming years on smartwatches for cellular connectivity. Some devices like the iPhone SE new release next year would also be ditching Qualcomm into putting an in-house modem.

In fact, one of the major improvements is that it will also support 5G, or actually some kind of variant of 5G. Until now, all Apple Watches that allow cellular functions curtail with 4G LTE. This will come up for 5G: rough downlink targets of about 150 Mbps and uplink around 50 Mbps, much lower than the vast majority of cellular designs for 5G.

5G RedCap technology which means 5G Reduced Capability, can provide a higher peak data rate as compared to 4G LTE with lower latency and better energy efficiency for IoT divides such as battery-powered sensors and wearables.

Ericsson, the vendor behind the technology says: “RedCap use cases will include wearables like smartwatches, wearable medical devices, and low-end AR/VR glasses, video surveillance, industrial sensors, and smart grids in their numbers.”

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Another big health-sensing capability that Apple is working on, already put into practice by rivals including Samsung, says Bloomberg, is still in progress on blood pressure measurement but has no word on when it will make an appearance.

While it is also believed to be looking into noninvasive blood glucose monitoring, that feature will take even longer to get here. The evidence of slowing of innovations in the health area is indeed evident, but to soothe things up a little, Apple threw in hearing-aid assistance on AirPods earlier this year.